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Now while I certainly am no Kelly Holcomb fan, and I doubt I"d be going to Dick's anytime soon to buy a #10 jersey... I feel to some extent this guy is getting the shaft..
People call him a "journeyman".. Now to some extent this is true. However, throughout his career he's been on teams where he wasn't given an opportunity to beat out the quarterback.
* His first two years in the league he played behind Jim Harbaugh.
* In 1998 he played behind Peyton Manning.
* For the next three seasons he played behind Tim Couch. Cleveland invested the top pick in the draft in Couch and were going to give him every opportunity to be a franchise quarterback. Coincidentally, in 2002 the Browns only playoff appearance, Holcomb threw for 429 yards and 3 TD's in a loss to Pittsburgh.
* In 2004 he was stuck behind Free Agent "savior" Jeff Garcia in Cleveland. He played in four games and his stats were actually much better than Garcia's. He competed 67.8% of his passes that season and had 7 TD's and 5 Int's.
* With Buffalo in 2005, I dont even need to get into because the entire team was a mess. Still, He did complete 67.4% of his passes and still had more TD's (10) than INT's (8) and that's even with the four int fiasco in New York in week 17.
NOw while he'll never be confused with a Troy Aikman or Dan Fouts, quit treating the guy like he's Joe Dufek of Matt Kofler. Put it this way, I've seen a hell of a lot worse QB'ing in recent Bills history.. Do the names Rob Johnson, Todd Collins and Billy Goat Hobert ring a bell?
DO I think Holcomb DESERVES to be the starter? HELL NO.. But I think he deserves the SAME opportunity as JP Losman, Craig Nall or anybody else..> This "you already know what your going to get" stuff is pure crap.. NOBODY was going to suceed on this team the way it was run last year.
I hope JP wins the job, but if he doesn't I'm confident HOlcomb can take advantage of having more speedy receivers and a much better offensive line than 2005.
People call him a "journeyman".. Now to some extent this is true. However, throughout his career he's been on teams where he wasn't given an opportunity to beat out the quarterback.
* His first two years in the league he played behind Jim Harbaugh.
* In 1998 he played behind Peyton Manning.
* For the next three seasons he played behind Tim Couch. Cleveland invested the top pick in the draft in Couch and were going to give him every opportunity to be a franchise quarterback. Coincidentally, in 2002 the Browns only playoff appearance, Holcomb threw for 429 yards and 3 TD's in a loss to Pittsburgh.
* In 2004 he was stuck behind Free Agent "savior" Jeff Garcia in Cleveland. He played in four games and his stats were actually much better than Garcia's. He competed 67.8% of his passes that season and had 7 TD's and 5 Int's.
* With Buffalo in 2005, I dont even need to get into because the entire team was a mess. Still, He did complete 67.4% of his passes and still had more TD's (10) than INT's (8) and that's even with the four int fiasco in New York in week 17.
NOw while he'll never be confused with a Troy Aikman or Dan Fouts, quit treating the guy like he's Joe Dufek of Matt Kofler. Put it this way, I've seen a hell of a lot worse QB'ing in recent Bills history.. Do the names Rob Johnson, Todd Collins and Billy Goat Hobert ring a bell?
DO I think Holcomb DESERVES to be the starter? HELL NO.. But I think he deserves the SAME opportunity as JP Losman, Craig Nall or anybody else..> This "you already know what your going to get" stuff is pure crap.. NOBODY was going to suceed on this team the way it was run last year.
I hope JP wins the job, but if he doesn't I'm confident HOlcomb can take advantage of having more speedy receivers and a much better offensive line than 2005.
That's the big thing right there. If he was really starting material, Peyton Manning wouldn't be a Colt.
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